Genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nereis Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [644].

  Type species:

   Nereis pelagica Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Heteronereis Ørsted, A.S. 1843. Grønlands Annulata Dorsibranchiata. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes. Selskabs Skrifter. Kjøbenhavn 10: 153-216 [174].
• Lycoris Savigny, J.-C. in Lamarck, J.P. de 1818. Histoire Naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, presentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédes d'une I. Paris : Déterville Vol. 5 pp. 1-612. [311].
• Praxithea Malmgren, A.J. 1867. Annulata polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Grönlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 24: 127-255 [167].
• Thoosa Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 22(2): 167-179 [172].

 

Introduction

An undescribed species of Nereis has been reported from a pilot whale carcass off Byron Bay, New South Wales by Georgieva et al. (2023).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mozambique
• Somalia
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • Lord Howe Island
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• China (People's Republic)
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Citations

Nereis.
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [59].

 

General References

Georgieva, M.N., Wiklund, H., Ramos, D.A., Neal, L., Glasby, C.J. & Gunton, L.M. 2023. The annelid community of a natural deep-sea whale fall off Eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 75(3): 167–213

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		08-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		22-Apr-2013	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		08-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)